There Cannot Be Change Without Hope

(CONNECTICUT) — Gen Z seeks change. Take a breath: 1...2...3...4...5. Don't smoke! Smoking bans are good, and allow for inner peace and the lack of second hand smoke and lung cancer. However, disposable vapes are very clearly worse, they contain things such as lead (depending on the brand, surely) and contain heavy metals that effectively poison you. 

Vaping allows for you to breathe in air flavored with nothing but nicotine. It is artificial, it allows for nothing to be pursued for the sake of nothing. I have both smoked a cigarette and vaped (in Canada, of course). Violence is bad; without guides, freedom, or justice, children yearn for something else, hence the rise of religion.

Obama offered a breath of fresh air; Zohran Mamdani does the same thing for our generation which was born in the throes of the Great Recession and went to high school and university in the throes of the Pandemic, with the world slowly dying as we grew up.

 That is the difference between breathing for the sake of life, and taking a deep breath. Change for the sake of change. I remember back at St. John’s College, I remember that personally, I was probably drinking too much, and smoking too much. The difference is I can change, and people can too. 

Tony Benn, a former hereditary peer and a former Member of Parliament that represented the New Left of Labour around the 60s, 70s, and 80s. He as a person can be seen as that society shedding its prestige, but of course, he is a person and not an ideal or idea. He was also, however, the first person to advocate for the resignation of the title of a lordship. This idea at the time was so radical that it was not legal!

My favorite movie often changes. Philosophy often resists change. JREG's anti-centrist accelerationism fought stasis and political inertia. He describes post-irony as Socratic processes. Yet, ironic diffusion isn't life; politics is. However, inertia is not a political concept. It’s a process of resistance to change in the difference between those who embrace enlightenment and those who reject it. Questioning everything is a part of growing up, but stuff does happen. 

New York isn't nihilistic; Hell is in Michigan. Congress's philosophy of hate is the White House's philosophy. I dreamt Trump would win, but he shouldn't have. Obama would beat Trump; Mamdani isn't him, nor mayor yet. Absolute power corrupts. There is something to be said about the win that must never be said, that thing that Mamdani unleashed is far stronger then the born and bred New Yorker, Donald J. Trump’s, corrosive ideals of hatred. 

Trump, is a media-savvy thinker, has made thought unserious, initiating a descent. "How Democracy Dies" examines reasonless politics. Borders are closing; people die in Gaza. Change won't happen today, but maybe tomorrow, with popular will. The emperor has no clothes. Yet, he does not act with shame. 

In conclusion, there is no conclusion of which it is worth saying or wasting time belaboring. There are no answers that I can provide for you which you can’t find yourself. However, we have lived in an era of universal access to knowledge, and knowledgeable access to truth, since the '80s.